What are you currently reading ?

[kipt]

Also finished a small booklet by Liddell Hart, entitled :The Future of Infantry".  It came from lectures he gave in the early thirties to officers of the Southern Command.

A quick overview of the history of infantry and then into what he thinks it should be.  Didn't quite turn out the way he envisioned, but close.  He thought automatic weapons should be carried on motor or tracked vehicles rather than by the infantry.

[fsn]

What date was that?

[kipt]

The lecture was given 1931-1932.

[fsn]

Ah! Thanks.

An interesting time in the development of tanks. 

[kipt]

Finished volume 2 of Moltke's "The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871".  It covers the Republican period.

[Matt J]

Couple of new books on the Korea war arrived today

Armoured warfare in the Korean war and To the last round, the epic British stand on the imjin river

[Steve J]

The latter book is excellent.

[Techno]

Listening to "Jail Busters" by Robert Lyman.
(Which I take to be based on truth....... a true tale ?)

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

Couple of new books on the Korea war arrived today

Armoured warfare in the Korean war and To the last round, the epic British stand on the imjin river

Yup. Would recommend both.

I'm reading "Chinese Hordes and Human Waves", the memoir of a British gunner in Korea.

[Orcs]

I am currently reading the second of two books about the experiences of German soldiers defending Normandy on D Day. I have some personal interest as my Ex wife's uncle was one of those.

The books are titled "D day through German Eyes" and "D day through German Eyes 2".

the notes for them were compiled by a German journalist who wrote for the German Military Journals.  He had visited Normandy in April 1944 to interview the troops their for an article.  For various reasons this article was never written.  In 1954 he tried to trace the people who he had interviewed previously or at least their surviving  comrades to ask them of their experiences, None of this was published and his son found the interviews when he died.

The first book takes one combatant from each of the 5 beaches and interviews them of their experiences.  Some are quite unique ie The Engineer who manned a  "Goliath bunker" with 25 of the remote control machines to use against the tanks coming up the beach. 

The one thing that struck me is the amount of incenry devices used, not just flame throwers but more often White Phosphorus in powder form in bombs and shells. Their is one graphic account of two hurricanes  coming in low and skipping their bombs along the ground to burst against the bunkers.#

I am half way through the second book and recommend them as something very informative.  There are many descriptions of defences and encounters so many could be used as the basis for scenario's.

Both Books are available on Kindle for a couple of quid.

[fsn]

The books are titled "D day through German Eyes" and "D day through German Eyes 2".

£1.99 on the Kindle - I'l have to go for those.

Didn't spend a lot of time of the titles, did they?

Is it just D-day or does it go into the campaign?

[Orcs]

It takes each individual normally up top the point they were captured or  the end of D Day.

The other thing I found very interesting is that they mainly thought they were "defending a United Europe"

So when they lost they formed the EU?  - there is a whole conspiracy theory about that online

[cameronian]

Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, audiobook

[wurrukatte]

Prit Buttar
Collision of Empires

[FierceKitty]

Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, audiobook

What do you call an uneasily-sleeping philosopher in a leafpile?